[1705–15; ‹ L frūgi-, comb. form of frūx fruit + -vorous]This word is first recorded in the period 1705–15. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: costume, junction, shellac, splash, tie-up-vorous is a combining form meaning “eating, gaining sustenance from” that specified by theinitial element. Other words that use the affix -vorous include: apivorous, graminivorous, herbivorous, omnivorous, phytosuccivorous
Examples of 'frugivorous' in a sentence
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The best represented gremials were: insectivorous (235 species), frugivorous (88), and granivorous (85).
Raúl Ortiz-Pulido, Jessica Bravo-Cadena, Vanessa Martínez-García, Doroteo Reyes, Ma.Eugenia Mendiola-González, Guillermo Sánchez, Maximino Sánchez 2010, 'Avifauna de la Reserva de la Biosfera Barranca de Metztitlán, Hidalgo, México Birdsof the Biosphere Reserve Barranca de Metztitlán, Hidalgo, Mexico', Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidadhttp://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1870-34532010000200012. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Abundance of facultative or obligate frugivorous species was very low.
Carrascal, L. M., Palomino, D., Lobo, J. M. 2002, 'Patrones de preferencias de hábitat y de distribución y abundancia invernal de avesen el centro de España. Análisis y predicción del efecto de factores ecológicos',Animal Biodiversity and Conservationhttp://abc.museucienciesjournals.cat/files/ABC-25-1-pp-7-40.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Of tree species, 65% were reported as food for frugivorous, herbivorous and omnivorous species.
Pablo Jesús Ramírez-Barajas, Gerald A. Islebe, Nuria Torrescano-Valle 2012, 'Perturbación post-huracán Dean en el hábitat y la abundancia relativa de vertebradosmayores de la Selva Maya, Quintana Roo, México Post-hurricane Dean impact on habitatand its influence on the relative abundance of large vertebrates in the Selva Maya,Quintana Roo, Mexico', Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidadhttp://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1870-34532012000400025. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The main alimentary guilds were insectivorous (n = 52; 35%), omnivorous (n = 46; 31%) and frugivorous (n = 13;9%).
Oswaldo Marçal Júnior, Alexandre Gabriel Franchin 2004, 'The richness of the avifauna in the Parque Municipal do Sabiá, urban area of Uberlândia,State of Minas Gerais', Biotemashttp://www.biotemas.ufsc.br/volumes/pdf/volume171/a10.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
However, behavioral and ecological strategies adopted by frugivorous lemurs to survive in secondary habitats have been little investigated.
Giuseppe Donati, Kristina Kesch, Kelard Ndremifidy, Stacey L Schmidt, Jean-BaptisteRamanamanjato, Silvana M Borgognini-Tarli, Joerg U Ganzhorn 2011, 'Better few than hungry: flexible feeding ecology of collared lemurs Eulemur collarisin littoral forest fragments.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3098261?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
We know little about the relative contributions of visual and olfactory senses for wild, frugivorous mammals.
Amanda D. Melin, Omer Nevo, Mika Shirasu, Rachel E. Williamson, Eva C. Garrett, MizukiEndo, Kodama Sakurai, Yuka Matsushita, Kazushige Touhara, Shoji Kawamura 2019, 'Fruit scent and observer colour vision shape food-selection strategies in wild capuchinmonkeys', Nature Communicationshttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41467-019-10250-9. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The diet was predominantly folivorous (43.4 % and 46.6 % in unlogged and logged forest, respectively) and frugivorous (43.9 % and 42.8 %).
Pinto, A. C. B., Azevedo-Ramos, C., Carvalho Jr., O. de 2003, 'Activity patterns and diet of the howler monkey Alouatta belzebul in areas of loggedand unlogged forest in Eastern Amazonia', Animal Biodiversity and Conservationhttp://abc.museucienciesjournals.cat/files/ABC-26-2-pp-39-49.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Eleven trophic guilds were identified; the insectivorous guild was the richest, whereas the frugivorous was the most abundant.
Mariana Delgado-Jaramillo, Marjorie Machado, Franger J. García, José Ochoa 2011, 'Murciélagos (Chiroptera: Mammalia) del Parque Nacional Yurubí, Venezuela: listadotaxonómico y estudio comunitario', Revista de Biología Tropicalhttp://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-77442011000400028. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
This analysis allowed me to group the species in seven trophic categories: herbivorous, insectivorous, omnivorous, granivorous-frugivorous, herbivorous/granivorous-frugivorous,herbivorous/insectivorous.
SERGIO I. SILVA 2005, 'Posiciones tróficas de pequeños mamíferos en Chile: una revisión Trophic positionof small mammals in Chile: a review', Revista Chilena de Historia Naturalhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-078X2005000300013. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)